TREND REPORTS
Beyonce’s Makeup Artist is Launching a New Vegan Beauty Line
[Product]
2019/04/08 11:03
Celebrity makeup artist Sir John, best known for his work with A-listers including Beyoncé, Priyanka Chopra, and Kim Kardashian-West, is launching a vegan makeup line in an exclusive collaboration with the Woolworths department store chain in South Africa.Dubbed Volume 1, the new makeup line features an eyeshadow palette, highlighter, and lipstick. According to the department store, the new br...
Top 5 Winners of GoFly Phase II Competition – Futuristic VTOL Personal Flying Vehicle Concepts
[Design]
2019/04/08 11:03
GoFly is a competition with specific goal to design safe, quiet, ultra-compact, VTOL personal flying vehicle.This is a Boeing-sponsored competition that aims to push boundaries of innovation, engineering, and transportation. There are five winners of GoFly Challenge Phase II where each team has been awarded with $50,000 in prizes. GoFly community consists of more than 3,500 innovators from more...
(Infographic) Over Half of Consumers Delete Marketing Emails Without Ever Opening Them
[Consumer]
2019/04/08 11:03
Only 13.6% say they open all of them. The majority (78.9 percent) said they've unsubscribed from a brand's email marketing list.Many brands dedicate entire teams to their newsletter strategies. But with so many brands in the email marketing mix, some consumers are getting dozens of them a day, if not more. So, how can marketers make their email efforts count?New research from Toluna and visual...
(PDF) BCG - The Dawn of the Deep Tech Ecosystem
[Business]
2019/04/07 09:10
Deep technologies—novel technologies that offer significant advances over those currently in use—are attracting an unprecedented amount of interest and activity. The aggregate global private investment in seven deep tech categories researched by BCG and Hello Tomorrow soared by more than 20% a year from 2015 through 2018 to reach almost $18 billion.Deep tech is no longer the primary purview o...
Folding Laptop Unfolds to Share Memories - FRAME
[Design]
2019/04/07 09:09
Recent unveilings within the world of tech have given us a glimpse as to what our future could entail… and it looks like it involves a lot more folds! This mind-blowing technical progression has led to some pretty incredible concepts to be created, and ones which don’t feel that far off! FRAME is one of these, as it aims to be a highly functional and exceptionally diverse piece of kit!FRAME t...
(Video) Adobe After Effects Gets Content-Aware Fill to Let You Remove Unwanted Objects from Videos
[Tech]
2019/04/07 09:08
Adobe’s After Effects now has the power of Photoshop’s content-aware fill for video, as introduced in today’s Spring update. The feature lets users remove unwanted objects videos, and it uses Adobe Sensei’s machine learning platform to replace the tediousness of having to edit frame by frame.While content-aware fill in Photoshop can remove unwanted objects from still images, today’s featur...
Amazon Partnership Delivering Returns for Kohl's
[Business]
2019/04/07 09:07
Hosting Amazon returns is bringing a return to Kohl's. Comparing Kohl's stores in Chicago, where most locations are participating in the tie-up, to Kohl's stores elsewhere.Earnest found that "Chicago sales, transactions, and customer growth all outpace the same metrics nationwide for 2018," after the stores began taking Amazon returns.In Kohl's Chicago operations, revenue growth tops 10%, compa...
Connected Fitness Startup Tonal Raises $45M Series C
[Investing]
2019/04/07 09:06
We’re seeing more fitness-related startups focused on customized and convenient training as work-outers seek alternatives to big box gyms.Tonal announced it has raised $45 million in a Series C round led by L Catterton’s growth fund. Evolution Media/CAA, Shasta Ventures, Mayfield, Sapphire Ventures and other investors also participated in the financing. The round effectively doubles the amoun...
The Bestselling Fast Casual Food Chains in the U.S.
[Product]
2019/04/07 09:05
When Americans want their burger, fries, tacos or chips, but they also want to take it up just a notch, they opt for fast-casual dining chains. These restaurants that are just a tiny bit fancier than your average fast food chain have been growing at nearly three times the rate of the restaurant industry as a whole, according to Restaurant Business Online and Technomic.Ahead of the pack is sandw...
